Classic Dan Dare - Marooned on Mercury

ISBN: 9781840238471
Dimensions: 296 x 220mm
Hardback: 96pp
Publication date: 21 January 2005
Illustration detail: Colour comic strip
All authors: Frank Hampson

Frank Hampson was perhaps best known as the creator and original artist for Dan Dare, but he also illustrated a number of children’s books for Ladybird. Dan Dare was first published in the British comic The Eagle in April 1950, and was last published as an ongoing series in 1996 — although Dan had undergone more than a few changes by then.

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Synopsis

It’s the best of British as, once more, Dan Dare takes to the stars in this latest volume in these great Collectors’ Editions of the legendary science fiction comic!
Believed dead after they successfully saved the Earth from the threat of the Red Moon, Dan and his friends have crashed on Mercury and fallen into the hands of the rock creatures that inhabit the planet! To make matters worse, Dan’s nemesis — the dreaded Mekon — is once more on his trail and Dan finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place!

Bonus material includes an exclusive introduction by Queen guitarist and long-time Dan Dare fan Brian May, an in-depth article focussing on the art of Frank Hampson, an unseen Hampson interview, and rare strip “Spaceship Away”!